Irewig has the appearance of an earwig with a dark blue chitin and a yellow underbelly. His face, four arms and legs are orange, and has a scowling face with glaring eyes with light-blue sclera and sharp teeth with two prominent red fangs. He has red antennae that are somewhat jagged close to the end and an orange pincer-like pair of legs that with red tips on his tail. He also has red feet and straw sandals.
Irewig has a fierce and wild personality, which he passes onto the victims he Inspirits.
Anyone Inspirited by this Yo-kai becomes easily ticked off and prone to bursting into angry rants about even small, insignificant grievances. In the anime, Irewig does so by using the two legs on his tail to pinch his victims, making them angry.
Irewig himself is also easily ticked off, as seems to get angry for every cation done to him in almost every game. He can also multitask, as the anime shows.
Irewig appears in EP073, when he Inspirited Lily Adams and causing her to get into a rage when Nate makes requests for her. After Nate identifies Irewig, his tries to have Jibanyan and Happierre deal with Irewig, but it backfired after they get Inspirited too. Eventually Nate decides to summon Komasan, who ends up channeling his anger in cleaning gum off the streets and building birdhouses, forcing the group to join in the activity, including Irewig. Exhausted from the challenges, Irewig surrenders and gives Nate his Yo-kai Medal.
"Irewig" is a portmanteau of ire (anger) and earwig.
"Scoltine" is a portmanteau of "scorpion" and "coltine" (put up with)
Origin
He along with his evolution are based on the Yōkai Ōmukade (大 百足) means giant centipede, a giant and dangerous yōkai, most of the time it is associated with fire, its weakness is human saliva, it can surround mountains and hills. It also has dragon characteristics
Trivia
Despite being a Yo-kai based on a centipede, translated ports and dubs name it after an earwig or a scorpion.
He actually only has 8 legs although he is a centipede. Centipedes have between 30-324 legs.
Irewig is the counterpart to Zappary. Both are D Ranks that evolve into A Ranks by levelling up, theirevolutions accompany the said Yo-kai's clanleaders during battle and take charge in the present era.
In other languages
Language
Name
Meaning
Japanese
ムカムカデ Mukamukade
portmanteau of mukamuka (angry, ticked off) and mukade (centipede)
Spanish
Mosquereta
portmanteau of tijereta (earwig) and mosqueado (mottled)
French
Scoltine
Scoltine" is a portmanteau of "scorpion" and "coltine" (put up with)
Japanese
Spanish
French
Italian
Portuguese (Brazilian)